WHOLE WORKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whole works mean? 

• WHOLE WORKS (noun)
  The noun WHOLE WORKS has 1 sense:

1. everything available; usually preceded by 'the'

  Familiarity information: WHOLE WORKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHOLE WORKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Everything available; usually preceded by 'the'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

full treatment; kit and boodle; kit and caboodle; whole caboodle; whole kit; whole kit and boodle; whole kit and caboodle; whole shebang; whole works; works

Context example:

for $10 you get the full treatment

Hypernyms ("whole works" is a kind of...):

entireness; entirety; integrality; totality (the state of being total and complete)

 Context examples 

When I returned home my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)